Re: Health of this project -- should we keep going?

[Jens Zurawski <jz...@diegurus.de>]

Because I'm new to the list since some days and stumbled across this 
thread in the archives, I'm hijacking this mail to generally answer to 
this thread (sorry Bart ;-) )

I'm loving TomEE. It's exactly the type of application server I need and 
want. Lightweight, fast, small footprint, easy installation and yet 
still powerful and feature rich. I'm relative new to it (as to JSF 
overall), since about 2-3 years now, but already don't want to miss it. 
Therefore I was somehow shocked to read this thread. My "new love" lacks 
of contribution and may be given up?

Very bad news, and I'm willing to do what I can do to prevent this. But 
I'm not sure about the value of my possible contributions. I'm far from 
being a JSF/EE crack (still learning by doing). I have some good general 
Java coding/development skills (~20 years of experience in SE and JSP) 
and I'm not too bad in analysing and optimizing things (my goal in 
development is to always try to make good software, not only bug-free). 
I'm able to develop some decent JSF applications but in the jungle of EE 
specifications I'm a bit lost at times.... Of course this should improve 
over time.

So, if this is enough to start contributing to TomEE, I'm happy to offer 
some capacities of mine. As this would be my first open source project 
to contribute, I will need some help in the beginning because I'm not 
too familiar with the customs in OS communities. Just give me some 
advise to how and/or where to start.

As I'm self-employed, my available time for the project will be a bit 
discontinuous and depend on my customers and running projects/deadlines. 
But I will have spare times, when I will have some capacities for the 
project and, of course, I would try to only commit to tasks I'm able to 
fulfil time-wise.

cu
Jens



Am 31.10.2023 um 11:19 schrieb Bart van Leeuwen:
> So as an active user of Tomee, where would you need help? where to start?
>
> (my employer has no problem that I would work on it)
>
> On 2023/10/11 19:36:23 David Blevins wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Wanted to share the state of this project as reported to the Apache
> board.
>>   -https://tomee.apache.org/board-report-2023-09-20.txt
>>
>> The short version is we do not get enough help from you to keep this
> project going.
>> Should we continue or should we just give up?
>>
>>
>>
>> -David
>>
>>
> Met Vriendelijke Groet / With Kind Regards
> Bart van Leeuwen
>
>
>